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In 1991 In-Young Ahn was the first female leader of an Asian research station (King Sejong Station) and the first South Korean woman to step onto Antarctica. [78] There were approximately 180 women in Antarctica during the 1990–1991 season. [72] Women from several different countries were regular members of overwintering teams by 1992. [77]
1956. Geologist Maria Klenova of the Soviet Union was the first woman to begin scientific work in Antarctica. [13] Klenova helped create the first Antarctic atlas. [14]Jennie Darlington publishes her book about spending a year in Antarctica called My Antarctic Honeymoon.
Patricia Hepinstall at the McMurdo Station. The first women to fly to Antarctica were the American flight attendants Patricia (Pat) Hepinstall of Holyoke, Colorado, U.S. and Ruth Kelley of Houston, Texas, U.S. who were members of the crew on the Pan American flight which landed at the US McMurdo Station on October 15, 1957.
Lois Jones (1935–2000), geochemist, led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969; Ruth Kelley, flight attendant, one of the first two women to fly to Antarctica in October 1957; Amy Leventer (graduated 1982), marine biologist, micropaleontologist; Diane McKnight (born 1953), environmental engineer, educator, editor
Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
This made Bancroft the first woman to reach the North Pole on foot and by sled. She was also the first woman to cross both polar ice caps to reach the North and South Poles. In 1992–1993, Bancroft led a four-woman expedition to the South Pole on skis; this expedition was the first all-female expedition to cross the ice to the South Pole.
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